Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 509 Hollow Square Array
Cao Eryu snorted, turned around and hurriedly left Dongnuan Pavilion.

Watching Cao Eryu leave, Dorgon's face collapsed again.

Hou Fangyu asked in a low voice, "Master, are you worried that Dagukou will not be taken down?"

"It's not just Dagukou." Dorgon didn't deliberately hide his emotions in front of Hou Fangyu, and said with his right hand twisting Dongzhu behind his back, "I am also worried about the upcoming Liaodong war."

"Yes." Hou Fangyu said with deep conviction, "The gain and loss of Dagukou and Liaodong is not an exaggeration to say that it is related to the future national destiny of the Qing Dynasty. If these two important places are not taken back, the consequences will be disastrous. "

"That's why I'm worried." Dorgon sighed, "In these two battles, we can only win but not lose!"

"To reassure master, I have a very high chance of winning these two battles." Hou Fangyu said before walking to the map hanging on the north wall.

"Let's talk about Dagukou first, it's the pinnacle of military strategists."

"At the beginning of the year, the reason why we lost the Qing Dynasty was because we underestimated the enemy and did not invest enough troops and firearms. The second reason was that we did not grasp the timing. When we were about to attack with gunpowder, the North Sea just thawed, allowing the Ming army to If the seawater is poured down the tunnel, the gunpowder will not explode if it is soaked in seawater."

Speaking of this, he paused for a while, and then said: "This time it will definitely not be the case. This time my Qing soldiers have already made sufficient preparations, and it is now the beginning of October, and winter has just entered. We have enough time to dig the tunnel slowly. Then bury the gunpowder barrels in the ground, and destroy the Dagu mouth and the surrounding gun platforms.”

Dorgon still fully approves of Hou Fangyu's analysis.

After humming lightly, Dorgon said again: "But I'm afraid there will be a fierce battle in Liaodong. Since Chongzhen dared to bring [-] Ming troops to Liaodong, he must have something to rely on."

Hou Fangyu said: "Chongzhen can't rely on the hundreds of thousands of Ming troops in Xuzhou, but these 10,000+ Ming troops are just a bluff, so the master need not worry, but North Korea needs to be taken seriously."

"Huh?" Dorgon's expression turned serious, and he said in a deep voice, "Are you worried about North Korea's betrayal?"

Hou Fangyu said: "Master, after all, North Korea has been a vassal state of Nanming for nearly 300 years. From the Korean clan to ordinary Korean people, they have feelings for Nanming. If Li didn't die and was sent back by the Ming army in Liaodong Seoul is very likely to be established as the heir of Joseon by Li Ji, and then North Korea will inevitably rebel against the Qing and return to Southern Ming."

"I'm not worried about this." Dorgon shook his head and said, "With Oboi and Xiangbaiqi's three thousand guards, even if Li returns to North Korea under the guard of the Ming army, it will be useless. They will not be able to turn the sky."

……

Dorgon is overconfident, and Ao Bai is already in trouble.

Here it is necessary to introduce the process of the Li brothers' return to the court.

Ten days ago, Zhu Cijiong took the lead across the Yalu River and escorted Li into North Korea.

At this moment, Zhu Cijiong didn't know that Aobai and Li Hao were also coming, otherwise, Zhu Cijiong would definitely lay an ambush on the way and kill Aobai and Li Hao first.

But because Oboi entered North Korea later, and also took the road of Uiju, he knew the existence of the Three Thousand Ming Army and Li, and Oboi chased him day and night.

Oboi and the three thousand white armored soldiers were all cavalry, and they covered a thousand miles in just four days.

On the morning of the tenth day, more than a dozen guards of the Xiangbai Banner Guards finally caught up with the scouting cavalry of the Ming army near Yanshuyi, ten miles away from the northern suburbs of Seoul, and immediately a small-scale skirmish broke out between the two sides.

The two armies formed a circle, and the dozen or so nights with white flags were not received, and they did not pay attention to the Ming army at all.

The dozen or so Yebu held their big bows, and approached the Ming army carelessly, preparing to shoot the Ming army with heavy arrows after entering within fifty steps.

These white armored soldiers are all experienced in many battles and know the performance of the Ming army's firearms very well.

Whether it was the bird blunderbuss, Lumi blunderbuss in the past, or the self-generated fire blunderbuss equipped now, the firearms of the Ming army could only be aimed accurately if they entered within [-] steps.

That's why the dozen or so people with the white flags inlaid with the white flag seemed confident and fearless, and there were even jokes like cats playing with mice. They couldn't wait to see the desperate expression of the Ming army.

However, what happened next was beyond their expectations.

When the distance between the two sides was about a hundred steps, the scout cavalry of the Ming army raised their self-fired guns one after another.

Seeing this scene, the white-flagged man who didn't close the night was not only not afraid, but laughed unscrupulously. The laughter was full of contempt for the Ming army and firearms. Who are you bluffing?

From such a distance, can you hit it?

More than a dozen Jiannu white armor soldiers laughed.

At a distance of one hundred steps, they did not believe that the Ming army's self-generated firecrackers could hit them, even if Fa Xing hit them, they were not afraid, because they were all wearing triple armor.

At present, more than a dozen Jiannu white armor soldiers continued to urge their horses forward.

In a blink of an eye, the distance between the two sides was less than eighty steps away.

Eighty steps, already within the effective range of Jiannu Dashao bow.

However, at this moment, the Ming army on the opposite side pulled the trigger first.

Accompanied by the sound of "bang bang bang", white smoke rose from the muzzles of more than a dozen self-igniting guns.

The Jiannu white armor soldier in the lead wanted to laugh, but just as he opened his mouth, before he could laugh out loud, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest, and his breath was stuck in his throat.

I was shot?It seems to have been hit by a lead.

Wearing triple armor, it is absolutely impossible to be pierced by lead.

The Jiannu white armored soldier cursed in his heart, and when he looked down again, he saw that there was a scorched black hole in the chest of the cotton armor, which was obviously pierced by the lead bullets of the Ming army.

The thief who entered the mother pierced through the cotton armor eighty steps away?

The lethality of the self-generated firecrackers of the Ming army is quite good.

Immediately afterwards, a scene that surprised Jiannu Baijiabing appeared.

I saw that the original scorched black bullet hole suddenly turned bright red, and then streams of blood overflowed from the bullet hole, instantly turning the white cotton armor red.

At this time, the breath stuck in his throat finally came up.

"I've been shot!" Jiannu's white-armored soldier screamed like killing a pig.

Before he could finish speaking, Jiannu Baijiabing fell off his horse.

Almost at the same time, other Jiannu white armor soldiers also fell one after another.

More than a dozen Jian slaves did not accept them at night, and not even one reporter was left behind, all of them were shot to death.

"Take the horses away!" With a wave of his hand, the commander of the Ming army separated seven or eight cavalry from the scout cavalry, stepped forward and took away more than ten Jiannu war horses that had lost their masters, and quickly disappeared on the official road.

……

At this time, Zhu Cijiong led the Ming army to the north gate of Seoul.

But the North Korean army guarding the city was as if they were facing a big enemy, and they closed the two city gates early, and the shadowy North Korean army also appeared on the top of the city.

Li then felt a little embarrassed.

Immediately explained: "Prince Ding, don't mind, they don't know that I am with you."

"I don't mind." Zhu Cijiong smiled, and continued, "However, in order to avoid misunderstanding, you should send someone to inform your father as soon as possible."

"Okay, I will send someone to see my father."

Li hurriedly called his confidant Pu Dongxi to him, and after a few instructions, Park Dongxi galloped away.

Zhu Cijiong also reined in the horse, raised his hand and shouted: "Send the order, the whole army will stop advancing and rest on the spot."

When the rest horn sounded, the soldiers of the Ming army, who were marching in line, stopped their feet one after another. They first stepped, and then sat down on the side of the road in unison. Everyone moved in unison.

Zhu Cijiong turned over and jumped off the horse, took out the Ming wine and was about to drink a couple of sips, when the sound of horseshoes sounded behind him.

Looking back, it was the scouting cavalry from the back who quickly chased them up, and the leading captain was also a gentleman of the king, and urged his horse to come to Zhu Cijiong and reported loudly: "King Ding, there are slave cavalry, the number is unknown, but there are at least two thousand! "

"At least two thousand slave cavalry?" Zhu Cijiong immediately put the wine jar back into his satchel, then turned over and mounted his horse, "Trumpeter, blow the rallying call, the whole army forms a hollow phalanx!"

"Toot, toot, toot, toot toot..."

More than a dozen trumpeters immediately lined up to blow the suona.

Amid the resonant sound of the trumpet, the Ming army who had been resting on the ground got up one after another, and then trained in the usual formation, quickly forming a small hollow square formation.

It is necessary to say that Zhu Cijiong's 450 new troops consisted of two infantry battalions plus a cavalry general, with a total of [-] infantry and [-] cavalry.

The 3150 new troops quickly formed a hollow phalanx.

Among them, 1350 infantry were divided into three teams, with their guns facing forward.

The other 1350 infantry were also divided into three teams, with their guns facing backwards.

The left and right wings of the hollow phalanx are more than 100 cavalry.

In addition, there were 100 cavalry scattered in front of and on both sides of the phalanx.

This is a standard modern cavalry infantry mixed hollow phalanx.

……

At this time, three thousand Jiannu cavalry had chased to the vicinity of Yanshu Station.

Looking at the dozen or so corpses lying in disorder on the official road, Oboi's face was blackened to the bottom of a pot.

Because one of the dozens of corpses was that of his younger brother Murima. He had eight brothers in total, and the eldest brother Zhuobutai died in the Xuzhou battlefield three years ago.

Unexpectedly, the third brother Murima was also in North Korea.

"This, this is all done by the Ming army?" Li Hao was a little surprised. Didn't it mean that all the guards of the Qing Dynasty were outstanding, and one guard could hang and beat dozens of Ming army scouts?
Why did the Ming army get rid of these dozen guards in turn?

Yabran jumped off his horse sideways and stepped forward to examine the corpse.

A month ago, Dorgon conducted a large-scale swap of the generals of the Eight Banners Manchuria. All the generals of the Yellow Banner, such as Aobai, were transferred to the Bordered White Banner, and Yabran and others were also transferred to the Bordered White Banner.

After a while, Yabran got up and said to Oboi, "They all died from the self-generated guns of the Ming army. The lead bullets pierced all the triple armor on their bodies. They should have been fired at very close range."

"But the heavy arrows in Murima's quiver are still there."

"If the humble staff guessed correctly, they should have been ambushed by a Ming dog."

Serious misjudgments including Yabran and Oboi, because they had no idea that such a big killer like a rifled rifle had already appeared in this world.

(End of this chapter)